Bottle-stopper



J'. J; ALLISON. Bottle-Stopper.

No. 224,122. Patented Feb, 3, I880.-

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WITNES ATTORNEYS.

TO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES J. ALLISON, OF NELSON, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,122, dated February3, 1880.

Application filed June 2Q, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs J. ALLISON, of Nelson, Leecounty, State ofIllinois, have invented a new and Improved BottleStopper, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish a self-closing bottle-stoppereconomical in construction and simple and efiicient in operation.

The invention. consists in a wire doubled to form a median loop ,or eye,and provided with elastic arms passing through stopper and having hookends bent toward each other, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of abottleneck and stopper, the latter in its closed position. Fig. 2 shows thesame with the stopper opened to pour out the contents of the bottle.Fig. 3 is a top view of the stopper. Fig. 4: represents the device forholding the stopper open when filling, and Fig. 5 is a modification ofthe wire arms. Fig. 6 is a side elevation, showing the modified formlocked so that the'stopper will passinto the bottle.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-.

sponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A is the neck of the bottle, rising from theconical top B. O is the rubber flange or disk, adapted to fit againstthe conical sides of B just below the neck. This rubber disk-is held onthe neck of a cast head, said neck connecting its two parts, a, I),through which passes a wire having eye or loop 0 in the middle, andspring-arms d d, which rise up through the neck and havetheir ends bentover toward each other.

When the bottleis filled the stopper presses up under the neck, and the.arms, spring- 7 ing apart over the top of the neck, draw the stopper upand hold iticlosed, in Fig. 1. When the contents are to be emptied thearms are pressed down into the neck, carrying the stopper down, and,being drawn together, one of the hooks catches the upright part of theopposite arm, holding them together, so that the stopper will fall downin the bottle; but by inverting the latter the arms fall down throughthe neck, and can easily be separated again to hold the stopper up.

When filling the bottle the stop D is inserted inthe faucet with the twowires f f extending downfrom it. These two wires pass down into theneck, furnishing a guide for the bottle, and also press the stopper downfrom its seat, whilethe stopper, passing down to the top of the bottle,limits the movement of the wires inpressing' down the stopper.

In Fig. 5 a modified form of the arms ex tending up from the stopper isshown. One arm has a long vertical hook, g, in which the shorthorizontal hook on the other arm looks, as shown in Fig. 6 of drawings.This is a preferable style for certainkinds of bottles.

In case the stopper falls into the bottle by the breaking of the wires,or is caught there by their becoming unhooked, it can easily bewithdrawn by inserting a hook in eye 0.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat ent- 1. A wire doubled to form a median eye or loop,.c,and provided with the elastic arms 01 d, the latter passed throughstopper, and having hook ends bent toward each other, as shown anddescribed.

pose of holding the arms together when the stopper is dropped into thebottle to wash the same, substantially'as described.

JAMES J; ALLISON.

" Witnesses:

' J OHN MOKINSTRY,

TRUMAN R001.

